Improvement in combined hay-elevator and manure-drag



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P. H. STAUFFER, OF LEHIGHTON, PENNSYLVANIA. ASSIGNOR'TO HIMSELF, lEDWARD MAURY, AND-WILLIAM L. LANDS.

Letters Patent No. 86,109, dated Janna/ry 19, 1869.

IIPROVEMENT IN COMBINED HAY-ELEVATOR AN D MANURIl-DRAG.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pat 0f the Same- To all whom it l:m1/y concern.-

Be it known that I, P. H. STAUFFER, of Lehighton, Carbon county, Pennsylvania, have invented a Combined Manure-Drag and Hay-Elevator; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same.

My invention consists of an implement, fully described hereafter, which is so constructed and arranged, that, by a slight adjustment of its palts, it can be made to serve either as a manure-drag or hay-elevator.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to make and apply my invention, I willl now proceed to describe the mode of constructing and using the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, and in whichyFigure 1 is a perspective view ofthe implement, as it appears when i'n use as a manure-drag;

Figure 2, a sectional view ofthe same;

Figure 3, a side view of some of the parts detached, and the implement arranged for elevating hay;

. Figure 4, the same, with the working-parts in a different position; and

Figure 5, a front view of lig. 4. v

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.'

The frame of the implement consists of a metal yoke, A, having at its front end an eye, a, and at its rear end bearings b b, iig. 5, in which is arranged to turn a transverse bar, D, the latter being furnished with any convenient number of teeth, c, which are so bolted or otherwise secured to the said bar as to be detachable therefrom.-

, At the opposite side of the bar D is a forked arm,'71, to the outer end of which is hung a rod, F; .and a rod, F', which is arranged to turn upon a bolt, e, close to one end of the flame, is jointed to the rod F by a pin, t'. An arm, l, is also hung to the pin t, for a purpose described hereafter.

The ends of the rods F and F are tted to each other, being each cut away so as to form inclined shoulders and recesses, k, of such a character as to prevent the said rods, when brought to the position shown in iig. l, from being turned upon the pin 'L in any direction except that indicated by the arrow.

In consequence of this arrangement, the rods F and' bolted to the rear ends of the yoke, and by the same bolt, e, to which the rod F is jointed.

The implement, as above described, is used as a manuredrag, the traces of a horse being hitched to the eye a, and the teeth c dragged over the manure.

When a sucient quantity of manure has been collected in front of the teeth, the attendant, who directs the drag by means of the handles H, raises the arm l, and slightly lifts the arms F and F above a horizontal line, the bar D and its teeth being then, by the weight of the accumulated mass, turned backvto the position shown by red linesin iig. 2.

After this the rods F and F are depressed, and the teeth brought to their former position', the operation being then continued until a second mass has -been accumulated, which is also discharged iu the manner described, the rods F. and F in every case holding the teeth firmly, and preventing them from turning back until properly' operated.

When the implement has to be used as a hay-elevator, the handles H H and their brace J are detached. The apparatus is then inverted, asshown in iig. 3, and suspended by its eye a to the usual hoisting-tackle, and

at one end, and secured to thecross-bar D by suitable nuts, so that, if it be desired, short stoutteeth may be used for dragging manure,while, when the apparatus is arranged as a hay-elevator, the usual curved prongs may be employed. r f

I claim Aas my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The detachable handles H H, and movable pronged cross-bar D, in combination withthe yoke or frame A, and with the rods F F or their equivalents, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

P. H. STAUFFER.

Witnesses H. HoWsoN, H. SMITH. 

